Anetso, The Cherokee Ball Game

A look at a centuries-old Cherokee ball game that is vigorous and sometimes violent. Focusing primarily on the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, this book explores the similarities and differences of this activity involving sport and religion.

Produced by Noksi Press, this coloring book features twenty-three different pages of pictures that feature different Cherokee words wrote in the Cherokee Syllabary. Each word is listed on the opening page and the list includes Cherokee items, animals, foods, places, and people.
The book is dedicated to the meomry of Hastings Shade, a Cherokee National Treasure and former Deputy Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Depicted on the cover, Hastings helped plan the Adams Corner blacksmith shed and is widely remembered for the forged gigs he made. Gigs are pronged instruments to capture aquatic wildlife such as fish, frogs, and crayfish.

Covering the years of 1830 through 1860, this book tells the individual story of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole indians.
Beginning with each tribe's removal from their eastern homelands to Indian Territory this book also includes their resettlement in Indian Territory.

In 1819 abd 1820 several hundred Cheorkee - led by Duwali, a chief from Tennessee - settled along the Sabine, Neches, and Angelina rivers in east Texas.
They soon found themselves "caught between two fires": The Cherokee ideal of harmony and the reality of factionalism between white settlers pushing westward and western Indians resisting incursion, and between traditional ways and the practical necessity of accommodating to whites.